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Top 10 Skyler's Bitch Moments


1. Skyler's Drowning in pool drama.
2. skyler Yelling Shut up, Shut up 10 times to Marie.
3. skyler telling "that i am waiting for ur cancer to come back"
4. skyler telling "each minute i keep my children away from you is a victory for me"
5. Skyler not talking to Walt in Season 2
6. Skyler at the Dinner table with Jesse.
7. Skyler's Ignoring Walt in season 2.
8. Skyler smoking in front of Baby and during Pregnancy
9. Skyler cheating Ted.
10. skyler's Bitch face sometimes.
which scenes you Hated Skyler, comment guys.

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Good list.

Slightly off topic, during the commentary on the Blu-ray dvd there's a scene where Skylar is folding clothes. Immediately before that scene the actress who plays her (I don't recall her name right now) sent out kudos to the person in charge of continuity especially for making sure all the clothing items matched.

Right after she says that, every scene had her folding a different colored piece of clothing with no time between to possibly explain why.

Maybe she was being a bitch in real-life. I don't know.

They quickly changed the subject.

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do...you are misinformed---Mark Twain

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There isn't necessarily a contradiction. When she refers to continuity matching that doesn't have to mean that the various folding scenes should have had the same coloured clothing. Given what continuity actually means, it's likely she meant that the items she was folding corresponded to the clothing the characters had actually worn.


"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson

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No continuity means having it look like there's no cut in the scene. Having her fold an item and then showing her instantly folding something else isn't continuity.





If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do...you are misinformed---Mark Twain

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Continuity isn't about trying to disguise cuts. As an editing style it refers to keeping meaning consistent even when scenes are broken into different shots. There isn't necessarily a continuity problem from that perspective, even if it's a series of jump cuts in time. In that case it's a progression of action. Noticing the cuts isn't a continuity problem because they don't have to be invisible and may even be intentionally noticeable.

But continuity can also can mean keeping the presentation of setting seem identical across shots. You mentioned "the person in charge of continuity," so this is the more likely meaning, since that is a defined role. The changes in clothing aren't a continuity problem as they don't have to match. Again, a progression of action.



"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson

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Giving him a handjob for a birthday present and selling stuff on ebay at the same time. All of her focus should have been on Walt.

But yeah pretty much everything she did was a bitch moment.

"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine

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Why is the actual name of the occupation so fking important? OK so she probably said the person held some other position with the crew. So what?



If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do...you are misinformed---Mark Twain

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No need to get hot under the collar. I was trying to sort out your confusion about what continuity means. There are two possible meanings. The name of the occupation is important because it identifies one kind of continuity, which from your post is what Anna Gunn was talking about. According to that meaning, there was no problem with continuity based on your description. Even if we take the other meaning of continuity, there was no problem.


"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson

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And I'm fairly sure that she mentioned color when talking about the clothing matching.

No one's going to notice whether or not she's folding clothes the characters wear. That's goofy.

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do...you are misinformed---Mark Twain

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I don't know about that. There are extensive theories about the color of the characters' clothing re: the story (http://stylecaster.com/breaking-bad-colors-theory/) so while I probably would not have noticed the color of the clothes Skyler was washing or folding at any given moment, I'm sure someone would have... This is a show that is meticulous with details.


Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.

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They weren't meticulous enough.

But it's not like the scene had anything to do with clothes. No attention was being paid to the clothes other than from her on the commentary.

Why could she not be folding clothes the characters wear out there in the fictional world they live in but not on camera?

She could have been folding clothes from Goodwill.



If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do...you are misinformed---Mark Twain

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No attention was being paid to the clothes other than from her on the commentary.


You underestimate the nitpickiness of the most devoted audiences. 

I generally agree, who cares what color of clothes a character on TV is folding. I personally haven't paid any attention to this on Breaking Bad - like at all. I didn't even know Skyler folding laundry was something we've seen on the show. But people notice the smallest and most insignificant of details.

I wasn't being totally serious though, just throwing this out there as a gentle shout-out to the extreme attention being paid to Breaking Bad, and the equally high degree of attention paid by the whole cast and crew.

As to the actual topic of the thread, my picks would be:

- Making the tape on Hank with Walt
- Suggesting Walt kill Jesse because "what's one more?"

Loved these:

3. skyler telling "that i am waiting for ur cancer to come back"
4. skyler telling "each minute i keep my children away from you is a victory for me"
6. Skyler at the Dinner table with Jesse.


That dinner scene is just fabulous in every way.


Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.

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Any people who break out in hives over goofs might want to avoid listening to the commentaries because they sometimes point them out.

I've only listened to few of them on the early episodes.



If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do...you are misinformed---Mark Twain

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Figure those finding goofs are likely those who are looking for them, not those paying attention to the acting.

If there's poor acting (not the case here) if not pointef out., expect you're more likely to find stuff like this.

The diner scene with Walt and Jesse, at the end of Box Cutter, had all kinds of errors in placement of utensils, cups, etc. between shots. But never would have noticed.

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And yet its supposed to be Walt's fault.

I don't care about a troll who doesn't pay for his opinion telling me how to review movies.

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i was wondering, when she was total bitch, all the time becomes transformed sudden in to normal or good understanding wife, or person after season 5 part 1.
its not about walt quitting the cooking, because walt did it too in season 2 and season 4. but she didnt forgive walt, she further punished him.
she becomes total likable character from the season 5 part 2.


How come she feels sorry for walt?

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Telling Marie to shut up was the funniest (and most longed for) scene in the entire show for me.

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Should put that on a loop and play it just before the start of all movies at theaters...or even at all public library entrances...

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Agree! One of the best scenes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UosZ4mXL8EI


here's a remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDBRv61958


Matrixflower :)

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IMO...IFT clearly is the standout b!tch moment. That one was hard to watch.

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One of the most enjoyable scenes in the series for me. For a long time I'd been hoping to see him forced to swallow his own medicine.

I fist pumped. Got him!

There he is, smugly confident after weaseling back into the home, still putting everyone in jeopardy, completely disempowering his wife, callously exploiting his son to do so, undermining their relationship - all the while supposedly "for family" - and she turns the tables on him with three little words.

Yessss... Revenge, served frosty and delicious.


"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson

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Damn! LOL

Remind me never to get on your bad side, whatlarks!

Hell hath no fury....

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Actually, BB is 9/10ths about a man who consistently felt scorned and the hell he created in response.

And if the "hell hath" line was directed at me (in part, at least), I wouldn't make an assumption about my sex. To quote Walter White's creator:

"There's a fine argument to be made that being a man does not entail cooking crystal meth and lying to your family and constantly putting them in danger."


"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson

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Lol no no it wasn't directed at you I was saying it just in a general way, as it fits in with skylers IFT moment.

Just an expression that felt appropriate.

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LOL 😉 

Matrixflower :)

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This is a good list. People will not agree on this, but all of these things (except the bitch face) can be explained. It must be remembered that she married a chemist, not a drug-dealer. Her husband chose a life of crime (serious felonies) that put him and the family in jeopardy (killers entering the house -- Jessie wanting to burn the house, etc.), and he lied to her (e.g. the Fugue state...) and put her through a lot of stress, and refused to leave the house, and on and on and on. Some people would say that in view of that situation, all of her actions described above were well-justified (or at least explained as a normal human reaction to stress). (Smoking during pregnancy isn't cool -- but it probably ain't gonna kill nobody...)

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My ultimate torture fantasy involves a scalding hot army knife and Skyler's vagina.

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The most entertaining one was when they were all there to talk about Walter not wanting chemo and Skylar wanting him to get it, with the talking pillow and all that, and Skylar said she wanted everyone to feel free to say whatever they wanted.

Then when Marie did just that, reasoning that chemo is horribly painful and if he doesn't want it it's understandable so everyone should respect his choice, Skylar went ballistic and it's so obvious she took for granted everyone was going to completely agree with her and that was the only reason she ever said anything about wanting everyone to feel free to say whatever they wanted. If someone didn't agree with her, she really didn't want them to feel free to say anything at all. The hypocritical nature of the woman amusingly exposed.

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She had every reason to be upset after finding out Walt was a drug dealer, but there's no excuse for her behavior in season 2. Walt's explanation that it was the alarm sound on his phone was completely plausible and she had no reason not to believe it. Just walking out, ignoring him and smoking while pregnant was a total bitch move.

Also, flipping out over that $300 bottle of champagne. You can spend 800k on a car wash, but buying an expensive bottle of champagne is gonna raise questions? Come on. Besides, they had just saved 79k on the car wash, so they could totally afford it.

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